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Will check it out because the crowd energy was the thing really elevating AEW shows and running the same venue for a year and a half is pretty rough on that aspect. But lol at "going back on the road" and it's still in Florida.

How about just take the bump closer to the corner and then you don't have to have everyone notice you scooting half way across the ring for no reason after you just took a death bump. Seems easier.

Saw some of KOR/Cole last night on NXT and the amount of times both of them got themselves into position for the next move or spot was real egregious. Peak egreg, perhaps. Especially as they were all such simple things where it would only take 2 seconds tops for one of them to just nudge the guy into position. But instead you'd see Cole take a bump and then scoot 1/3rd of the ring away, or KOR would roll through a move so he could get into position for the reverse shining wizard deal but not only would he stop the roll through to properly get into position, but he'd also turn for the camera angle. I'm not all "ARRRG IT'S GOTTA LOOK REAL" but that kind of shit is just lazy. There's no reason KOR couldn't have just grabbed Cole by the wrist and dragged him for ONE second to get a better position for the spot. There's no reason that Cole couldn't sit KOR up instead of KOR having to roll through and then twist around to get into the right spot to get the right camera angle on the spot.

By virtue of longevity, style, and position on the card, Rey has way more high quality TV matches than Bret over the years. It's not really particularly fair, because Rey existed in companies and in a position on the card where he could go out and show out every week for 20 years, and where good matches for the sake of good matches to take up TV time was far more prevalent than in Bret's run. There are multiple years where Rey has as many or more TV matches in a single year than Bret had in total of 1993-1996 (and even that is skewed to a number of Euro only shows). Not only is this unfair in a style sense, but unfair comparison just based on their positions on the card and roles they played.

I don't really have an issue with Peacock. It is weird that it clearly wasn't built for sports despite NBC Sports being a big part of the platform, but ultimately they're not going to redo their whole formatting for one section of the platform. It is much, much easier and faster to search through the Xfinity menus than Peacock itself. However ultimately it's free for me and I end up watching a lot of shit on it I otherwise wouldn't just because it's conveniently available to me.

To be fair, the spinning toehold is a pretty stupid move, especially when done for multiple reps around

From the little I've seen of both, George couldn't have held Buddy's jockstrap, jack.

He shouldn't be indy Brock, but American WALTER. Fat Chris Hero knocking the shit out of everyone and sticking his gut in fans' faces >>>> all other versions of Hero combined

Roman is most definitely a better in ring guy than Cena ever was. And he has been his whole singles run since 2014. Some real dogshit booking, though, which is pretty common to....well, all top WWE babyfaces in all eras.

I'm not saying he's a Super Calo, but he has had a lot of nights where he seemed a stone's throw away from being a Super Calo

There has to be more high end Orton matches than Ultimo. And probably more decent mid card or TV matches as well. Ultimo is a guy I thought was awesome as a kid and then grew up and realized he was sloppy as hell and he was just a pure MOVEZ guy. Which can certainly be fun and definitely was for video games.

Sheamus without question. Drew is fucking boring.

It's acceptable to cheese any way you can to beat an S tier boss

It's just such an overused thing that long ago became a thing that has to be on the checklist of EPIC GREAT MATCH bullshit to make smarks think you're in intelligent worker and know how to sell

All I caught was MJF/Sammy and thought it fucking sucked. Hardcore "look at us, having this classic match" bullshit where you can tell every single second was planned out and they were patting themselves on the back at how smart and great they were while putting it together.

Having just tuned in late to AEW to see an avalanche tombstone get a 2 count and the match go on another 10+ minutes (lol), what actually really bugs me is the half a second sell after delivering a big move to sell and injury and it therefore not getting the win. 1. It's never a long enough sell to make a difference in a pin 2. It always telegraphs the kick out and any drama in the fall 3. It's been so over done in so many matches for so many years that at this point the actual surprise would be hitting the move with a sell by the performer of the move right before the pin and still getting the win. The only guy I can even think of doing this is RVD where he'd sell the frog splash as much as his opponent

I would assume it's less refusing to get vaccinated and more that he frequently and openly was not following quarantining protocols and putting everyone at risk. But also because he's a nut case drawing the kind of attention WWE certainly doesn't want, as well as conflicts with co-workers. There's probably 4-5 reasons to fire that fuck that had nothing to do with whether or not he got vaccinated.

The self inflicted misery to feel like you need to watch Raw every week in 2021 is an internal struggle I wouldn't wish upon my most hated enemies.

HBK wasn't even involved in a televised triple threat until his second run. He was involved in a couple of house show/dark matches with Bret and Sid in January/Feb 1997 and the next triple threat he did was at WM 20. So what it looks like is WWF did experiment with triple threats on house shows or Raw dark matches but the first televised one was June 23, 1997 and it was Owen vs HHH vs Goldust. And it happened two times in a row on that Raw.

WCW did them before WWF did them, as triangle matches, with tags, and first fall wins. They did it at Starrcade 1995 with Sting/Lex/Flair and then did a couple of tag versions on Nitro in 1996. I don't think the WWF did any until mid 1997.

Everything about that pic is bizarre. Vince going to a comedy show at all. Vince going to a Dave Chapelle show. Vince taking pics with the opener. Vince in jeans.

Chris Jericho has not been involved in a good singles match since 2010 or 2012. All the NJ matches sucked. The first match with Kenny was passable on an unusually weak WK. Every match he's had in AEW has sucked. If there was a tag or multi man match that was any good, he has undoubtable been the worst part of it. Jericho has so many years of his career that are an absolute blur of cringey promos and completely unmemorable matches. He's basically an older, shorter, pudgier Dolph Ziggler for most of the past 20 or so years.

I don't know if these cuts are really for a sale because if I'm taking a look at the books and just in general looking for ways to save some money, I'm seeing about 50 people who are under contract who are getting paid to wrestle exclusively on an internet show no one watches and isn't even promoted, I'm seeing guys like Fandango and Tyler Breeze who are have been around for ages doing nothing, who have been moved back to NXT because there was nothing for them on the main roster and then nothing for them in NXT, either. If I'm starting up a game of TEW, I'm probably immediately cutting 30-40 talents without hesitation. Seems like Shao Khan is playing life this way.

Brock vs Balor is what Brock vs AJ/Bryan would have been if Brock didn't respect those two

I think the narrative makes sense when most people think he could have been the top guy, foundation of JCP/WCW for years to come. Even when he became NWA Champion, it was a few years late and the NWA/WCW relationship was in a weird spot. Plus, he was rarely even headlining house shows as NWA Champ, let alone any big events.